why can't washington just take care of it immediately? >> lots of questions tonight after a massive gas leak shuts down i-270. who's to blame and whether it be -- will it be safe by morning? also tonight a health alert, big news that impacts millions with sleep apnea.

how to reverse the damage. plus the truth about the debt ceiling. we breakdown what really happens if there's no deal by august 2nd. but first as of now the storms are finally winding down. >> but time to get ready for dangerous heat. topper shutt joins us from the weather center. top? >> 9 today, just going to get -- 95 today, just going to get hotter tomorrow. the heat advisory has been posted now you folks up in frederick county and loudoun county are technically not in the advisory. gaithersburg and montgomery county and the district and frederick county and points south, either side of 95 in the advisory. it still feels like 84 downtown and 82 in hagerstown. don't exercise in the evening, exercise if the morning and so heat advisory means the heat

index is between 105 and 109. exercise in the morning because the peak heating of the day is actually about 5:00 in the evening. all right, live doppler 9000 hd the storms are finally pushing through. the warnings just cleared. just about 60 seconds ago. in suffolk county and carolyn county, all under severe thunderstorm warnings now everyoning is gone. -- everything is gone. earlier today, some big thunderstorms rolled through the clarksburg area. that means is some is very stens and -- storm is very intense and has hail and strong lightning and gusty winds. the wakeup weather looks like this. humid conditions and 70s to startment 7:00, 70s. into the low 80s by 9:00. we'll come back. let you know if we're going to break any record highs tomorrow. new at 11:00, a house catches fire during the storms tonight and firefighters say blame it on lightning. they say a bolt of lightning hit austria long the 12,000 block -- a tree along the

12,000 block of whip poor will lane. fortunately no one was hurt. 270 is back open. the stretch of the road in fact for more than five hours was shut down. >> now that is the good news. the bad news, the work to repair the gas main just beginning on clarksburg road after all of this. delia gonzalez has been following the story all evening and has the latest. >> reporter: a commuters' nightmare. >> dead stop, they shut the lanes down completely. >> reporter: 270 shutdown just as the evening commute gets underway. traffic, tied up for hours. >> we were running out of gas. so we had to stop and fill up. before we ran out of gas out on the middle of the traffic. >> reporter: crews didn't have it any easier either. an eight inch gas main on clarksburg road was broken by a contractor working for washington gas. >> the force was such that it blew the windshield out of the

excavator. >> reporter: a nearby office building evacuated. 2,000 residents told to shelter in place. but dangerously close to 27 #, forcing the shutdown. >> they were placing in a trench box which is to protect their workers from a cave-in from the dirt collapsing around them. they were driving a fourth piling or a slide rail down in to put the trench box or attach the trench box to when it actually severed an unidentified -- we're not certain if it was unmarked -- main. >> reporter: at least one neighbor is pointing to blame. >> where is the contingency to fix it while you've got over 250 firemen, policemen, medics, and enough equipment for a major emergency out here? why can't washington gas take care of it immediately? >> reporter: as for the family, they'll be late to their destination, but they tried the make the best of -- to make the best of it.

traffic here on clarksburg road just reopened moments ago. and so cars are flowing through. a relief for a lot of the commuters in the area. frustration for a lot of the homeowners. why is this taking so long? what we know so far is that washington gas had to order a special part to repair that eight inch gas main. the good news though for homeowners in this area, they were able to reroute the gas and there was no interruption of service. but it's going to take several more hours well into the night until this problem is fixed. we're live in clarksburg, derrick, anita, back to you. the stalemate, roadblocks, standoff. call it whatever you want. at the end of the day, president obama and the congressional leaders just can't see eye to eye. they spent the day trying to hammer out the agreement. but they came to no decision. president obama insists an agreement can be reached if republicans are willing to give a little. >> if the basic proposition is

it's any way or the highways -- my way or the highway, then we're probably not going to get something done. >> this boils down to two things -- the president continues to insist on raising taxes, and they're just not serious enough about fundamental entitlement reform. >> now democrats are pushing for the $4 trillion worth of deficit cuts and they want to end some tax breaks for the wealthy. but republicans are now asking for a smaller measure that includes bigger spending cuts and no tax hikes at all. the president wants is long- term deal done he says he will not accept a temporary fix. so as it looks increasingly like lie, what happens if there's no deal to raise the debt ceiling? gary nurenberg's been talk welcome the experts and hopefully some answers will come along with that. gary? >> reporter: well, david bromberg wrote you have to suffer if you want to sing the blues. if the government misses the august 2 deadline and runs out of money to pay its debts, millions of americans immediately qualify to join him

on stage. you've got 56 cents, think about owing $1. if you're the united states on august 3rd. >> the cash shortfall if you will, is 44% by our estimation. of all expenditures. no matter what you do and we have tried a lot of different ways, you have to cut things that are very popular and very important to get 44%. >> reporter: jerome powell was a high ranking treasury official in the bush administration who came up with the scenario at the policy center. on august 3rd, pay interest on the debt. pay medicare, pay medicaid, pay social security. pay unemployment. pay defense spenders who give our soldiers who they need. there's nothing left. >> well, we didn't pay $1 for law enforcement and we've got no fly. we've got no -- fbi. we've got no courts, we've got no jails. we've got no bureau of alcohol, tobacco koa and firearms. we shut down six or seven departments and we have no pell

grants for students as i mentioned. it's august, you've got millions of students getting pell grants to go to college. you're not going to get them and no rental assistance for the poor. elements of the safety net are not just there for people who really need them. >> reporter: so an august 3rd, powell predicts the government will have $12 billion in tax receipts coming in, but also $32 billion in bills. >> including a $23 billion social security payment. how are we going to pay it? you can't fail to pay social security, right if if you want to remain elected to an office in the country. this is impossible, we you know, the consequences are very, very large if we don't raise the debt ceiling by august 2. and people should understand that. >> reporter: the united states did raise the debt ceiling seven times in the bush administration. john boehner, mcconnell and eric cantor all voting question. most democrats voted against the increase in 2006.

one democratic senator said at the time, the fact that we are here today to debate raising america's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure -- end quote. >> reporter: that senator voted against raising the debt ceiling five years ago. that senator, derrick was barack obama of illinois. >> i think he has a different job now gary. thanks for the information. the politicians can't seem to get it done. so in about seven and a half minutes, see what your neighbors think about fixing that national debt limit. a box cutter, a can of gasoline and a chain saw. that is what police say ashley owens used to murder a bladensburg convenience store owner. investigators say back in april the 23-year-old stabbed richard

nam multiple times. prince george's county police arrested her june 30th for the time. they helped zero in on owens as the prime suspect. police say she had mitted to cutting -- admitted to cutting him and then beating him with the chain saw and then stole $2,000 from the store before setting it ablaze. >> he didn't deserve to die that you know. he was a great guy. >> i'm glad they caught the individual who done it. and i hope she pays. big time. >> police say nam and owens knew each other, but a motive still unclear. she's now been charged with murder, robbery and afteron. owens -- arson. owens is being hold on a $1 million bond. now a story to leesburg and a story of sex allegations and a day care worker and a possible mixup. the worker, 23-year-old brad minor was put on leave last spring while police

investigated allegations that he sexually abused a 4-year-old girl at the chester brook academy in leesburg. the day care said child protective services later notified them that the case had been closed the claims unfounded. so the day care reinstated minor. turns out the police were still very much investigating him. >> we had no idea they were sending a letter to close the case out. >> if you had known that, would someone from the department have called child protective services? >> absolutely, we would have told them hey the case is still own. >> in fact the police later did file charges and unfortunately worse from here. minor now cases even more charges -- faces even more charges all involving yet another 4-year-old girl at chester brook academy. child protective services are not comment and loudoun county chairman scott york will get to the bottom of this. tonight montgomery county police are pushing hard to catch a murder suspect who's been out there for almost a

year now. his name tyshaun jones and he's wanted for the murder of julian kelly. he was shot in silver spring and now police believe jones is back in that area and the victim's relatives want him off the streets. >> my mom -- my sister, my cousin, they all still live back there. we need to do something to keep the community safer and i'm asking you, the people to help me do that. >> police are trying to do that. in fact they boosted the rewards up to $5,000 and dribbling wanted posters all around the boulevard. sleep apnea is much more than just losing a night's rest. we're going to talk about it after the break. plus -- >> i think it's really a difficult topic and i think they better really do something about it. >> tonight, local residents try their hand at balancing the budget. what they came up with in a minute. stay with us.

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interruptions actually damage the blood vessels. a person with sleep apnea can stop breathing for up to 10 seconds several times a night. researchers looked at more than 100 people with the disorder and found that even other side healthy folks -- otherwise healthy folks had abnormal small and large blood vessels that reduced blood flow straight to the heart. >> that's therefore how those vessels can become obstructed and heart attacks can occur. >> about 15 million people have chronic sleep apnea. it is more common among african- americans and certain other groups. serious stuff. so if those vessels are damaged. can doctors fix it? >> actually yes, that's the cool part about this. they can. people who use a cpap don't have the breathing interruptions and this study showed the treatment works to reverse the damage on the blood vessels. foul of course there's a downside. nobody loves wearing the air flow mask every night.

but it's considered the gold standard for treating it and there are other options too. there's lasers and radiofrequency treatments for the soft tissues at the back of the throat. that stops the snoring, but the key is getting the right diagnosis. all right, well, you know what they say about opinions. everyone's got one. well, there's certainly been no shortage of them the past few days especially in terms of politicians weighing in on the budget deficit and the debt ceilingbut we wanted to know what the average person thought about the talks at the white house. so we sent matt jablow down to washington to find out. >> reporter: he is an actuariry from arlington. tonight he was a congressman. >> we've got a why there. >> reporter: well, sort of. he was actually one of dozens of arlington resident who is attended a workshop sponsored by the concord coalition. the purpose of the workshop according to the coalition was

to give people a real sense of the tough choices that congress will have to make like which taxes to raise or programs to cut. in order to reduce the deficit which this year was about $1.5 trillion. >> at some point, you got to stop kicking the can down the road and let the rubber band snap back into place. >> reporter: the workshop began just a few hours after talks about extending the nation's $14 trillion debt ceiling ended for the day at the white house. >> it appears that the can is going to continue to get kicked. >> reporter: about the best ways to balance the nation's books. >> i think it should be a combination of closing loopholes but also spending cuts on -- on programs pretty much across the board. >> i think it's really a difficult topic and i think they better really do something about it. >> reporter: it sure is a difficult topic and most people agree that something has to be done.

but even after the talks in arlington and at the white house today, there are still no clear signs about what that something will be. derek mcginty, anita? >> apparently for the experts on capitol hill. it's going to be hotter tomorrow than today. it was 95 today by the way if you thought today was hot. you're right. >> so sticky. >> maybe the 100-degree mark tomorrow not out of the question. in fact, we'll start with record highs, record high at national is 99. well, downtown and the record high at dulles is 97 and also bwi. those are in jeopardy especially dulles and up in baltimore. so this one -- we're going to be flirting with that one set back in 1908. we will see. all right, let's talk about some other things. let's talk about the headlines, here's the deal -- beat the heat. the stay hydrated. all right, drink lots of water. eat light meals and limit your time in the sunshine. okay? if you have to be outdoors take

frequent breaks and remember your pets. check on your pets. if you will. all right? check on your pets if you will. that's very, very important. all right, here's the other deal. look at this. heat advisory goes into effect at noon. continues until 8:00 p.m. it's going to be even hotter tomorrow than it was today. dangerous heat. the time you get indices over 105, that's big time heat all right and more big storms are possible. in fact, anytime storms develop now, tomorrow, or even into wednesday, they could be heavy and we saw no shortage of big storms tonight. partly cloudy and muggy. i'm kind of worried about the dense fog developing overnight. low temperatures in the 70s. might want to allow a little extra time tomorrow morning. tomorrow, 75 to 95. winds out of the west at 10 and air quality code orange which is unhealthy air. for sensitive groups, if you have respiratory problems or an infant and you're elderly, you

have some problems. but i think the heat is going to be a larger concern than the air quality. by the an, heat advisory goes into effect. some isolated thunderstorms are possible and once again those that develop could be rather hefty. highs once again 95 to 100. these are straight telephones, this is not -- temperatures, this is not heat indeseize. college park, 97 in buoy. 99 at wall doffer and reston, sterling, leesburg and manassas. we are talking big time heat. all right the day planner, 70s to start. 87 to 92 by lunchtime. if you're walking to lunch, you're going to perspire no doubt about that. 95 to 100 at 5:00 and a couple of thunderstorms are possible by then. probably better chance of storms on wednesday, not quite as hot. 93 and just great on thursday, 88 but low humidity. we're going to finish the week strong. in fact, here's the seven day.

even friday we're in good shape. just a few clouds late and still not humid. mid- to upper 80s on saturday and sunday. we might see a thunderstorm, but not a big deal and actually a pretty good deal for temperatures by then. maybe by next monday, maybe 90 again, we can handle that. maybe a thunderstorm. >> nice break in the weekend. >> yeah. >> we'll take it. >> thanks. so brett. it is sort of baseball's version of a slam dunk contest. >> yeah, the home run derby or nascar, they can have the final lap and crashes on one night or hockey has goals and fights, they say the ladies love the long ball. home run long ball? you would have loved this because this was a good one and a red sox yankees battle in the final. plus, word that the nfl lockout is about to end. and why this goalie wants to dig a hole and jump in. see you at 9 sports next.

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well, think a guy who can hit home runs off a 90-mile-per- hour pitch can hit some off a 50-mile-per-hour pitch. but as the home run derby taught us over the years, that's not always the case. in 25 years, the guy leading a

majors at the all-star break has never won and the curse continued in phoenix tonight. toronto's jose bautista, had just four tonight and he was out in the first round. longest bomb of the evening went to the biggest dude, prince fielder. 474 feet. this thing goes into the concession stand out there in right center. but he lost in the semis too. finals came down to the yankees and red sox showdown. adrian gonzalez had 11 in the finals including this one into the pool in right center. watch the fan. jump down from the jacuzzi -- into the pool to make the catch! he's the mvp. but it wasn't enough to catch the yankees' robinson cano, hitting off of his dad tonight. 32 overall. first yancey since giambi in '02 to win the derby. the all-star game of course is tomorrow. roy halladay was named the nl starter, 11-3. 2.35 e.r.a..

reliever tyler clippard will represent the nationals. any number of nfl veterans are privately hoping the lockout lasts just long enough to cancel the training camps. but sources reporting tonight that the placers owners expect to have a deal in the next week or so in time to be ratified next thursday. if that's the case, all training camps will open on time. full preseason schedule will be played. the rookie wage scale appears to be the final sticking point. as for the redskins, once they finally come back, who's their quarterback going to be in espn radio in philly says it could be donovan mcnabb, because according to them, dan snider wants him to return. donovan still under contract to the redskins. hockey now and it's not that the caps lack talent between ovechkin. they score enough goals to be a

lacrosse team. but some would argue the caps keep exiting the playoffs early because they lack a certain toughness. the caps picked up troy brower from the black how cans on draft nice -- blackhawks on draft night. he's a guy who finished fifth in the league in hits last year and helped chicago win the stanley cup two years ago. brower made the debut today and says he's ready to enforce the law. >> every time that i've had one of my better games in my career, i've had you know, five, six, seven hits in a game and for me to be successful, i need to be physical and so that's a big part of any game and i'm going to you know, try and continue that game in and game out. >> game oot? did he say game out? i wonder where he's from. why is the goalkeeper writhing in anguish? he didn't get if memo that goalies are allowed to use their hands. oh no. that's madillico and i don't know what the russian term for want to get away is? but i'm sure he's learning it.

there are about 93 replays of this that i watched on youtube tonight and every time he screws it up. i -- [ laughter ] i don't know why i expect it to get better on the 91st replay, but that does it. >> ouch, we'll be right back.

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